Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-08-06


A band of cattle numbering 1000
head, and owned by Russell & Brad
ley, of Elko, Nevada, arrived at the
Market Lake ranges This week.
Five race horses stabbed in a bag
gage car passed up the road Saturday
evening enroutc TO the Butte races.
They were owned by Salt Lake and
Denver parties
A car load OF employees, the rem
nant OF the Eagle Rock shops, passed
down the road Monday morning to
Pocatello from which place they will
be assigned their respective fields of
labor
Since the widening of the gauge on
the U. & n. the time of running be.
tween Butte and Pocatello has been
shortened two hours. Trains that for.
merry left Butte at now leave at
8 O'Clock.
Now that the mosquitoes are leav-
ing the Lost river country the ladies
OF that section begin TO don their
Mother Hubbards again. This item
OF news Is based upon the statement
OF a popular bachelor OF Custer county.
Is il not an unjust discrimination
against milk man who puts water
in the milk he sells? A man can put
water in his whisky, his wine or his
cider and he is all right, but II he
puts water in his milk the very noun
tains echo with the howlings.
The picnic party Of last Sunday in
yaded the headquarters Of Snake river
mosquitoes and found the little ac-
tiyes full OF business. Being strictly
Sabbatarians and not wishing to dis
turb the devotional exercises OF that
select assembly the party withdrew
with appropriate apologies and much
private thinking
John Pritchett has a mule and John
and the mule often s.argify for the
honors Of boss. Monday John want
cd things his way and the mule said
she would see him in Balahack before
il should be that way. John remon-
strated and the mule began to dance
''the walk around" John approach
cd closer and the mule turned the fast
er; presently John felt something
strike him ON the side OF the head and
the seven stars twinkled before his
eyes. The iron necklace that adorn-
ed the mules neck had flown Off like
meteor in space and struck John on
the head. When he had sponged
away the copious flow of blood he
quietly remarked, That's what makes
me hate mule"
The recent decision that deputy
clerks Of the District court at Eagle
Rock and Oxford are clothed with the
proper authority to transact land bus
incss, was made by Com. Sparks,
after Clerk Hays had explained the |
difference between Idaho and the 9th.
er Territories, with reference to his |
authority to appoint deputy clerks,
and the right Of the Judge to hold |
court at any time and place in his dis
crction, regardless of the location OF
the county scat II has been held re-
peatedIy by several OF Gen'l Sparks
predecessors and by each successive
Secretary since 1879 that clerks OF
the court could only act at the coun-
~ seat, where court is held and the
seal kept; thus showing that Commits
sioner Sparks was the first to proper
" construe the law on this point In
stead OF being oyerruled, as intimatcd.
No town in Idaho can boast of bet
ter churches and more punctual church
going people than Blackfoot This is
volume In It's praise Next, we want
MS good schools and school facilities
as any town In the Territory. These
the enlightened, intelligent, moral and
progressive people demand and must
have. According to late census we
have 26l pupils Of school age; the
compulsory clause OF the school law
compcls these 261 pupils TO attend, at
least a part Of the session, and the
question that now stares us In the
face is--where are the directors going
to put thcm2 The school building
win not accommodate more than 125
at best; TO rent building up town
and take the principal away from the
school is impracticable and to turn
pupils from the doors for want OF
room cannot be entertained The
opening of the session is near at hand
and whatever is to be done in the
premises must be done quickly.
Blackfoot can be made one Of the
best educational points in the Terrific
ry and we cannot afford TO take any
steps backward. In addition 10 the
necessity for providing a suitable
building We think the board OF direc-
tors will find themselves compelled TO
engage another teacher or more. Ad.
mitting that only two-thirds of the
number enrolled attend and then adj
ding those who are likely to come
from outside of the district and we
find the three teachers engaged would
have an average OF so or 20 pupils
each which will be entirely too many
for any one teacher, IL matters not